It's kind of funny what they follow that up with:

> Essential Phone will get guaranteed Android OS updates for 2 years and will get monthly security updates for 3 years, so your phone will always be secure and have the latest features.

I do not think the word "always" means what they think it means :)

The worst piece is that they usually measure from first day of sale, not last. If you buy this same phone next year, you'll only get a year of updates.

If we go one level up the abstraction, always doesn't mean always either. The universe's life is finite. :)

You can't fool me. The universe doesn't exist.

I am mostly moving on from an LG G2 to the new Essential Phone. For the past year I have been running AICP, currently at Android 7.1.x Prior to that I had about a year of Cyanogenmod.

Granted, third party roms are not for the average user but it amazes me how few on HN seem to run them and instead whine about why their 3 or 4 year old phone is no longer getting the latest greatest. People here like to point to Apple/iOS but really, how many of the iPrecious users are still on an iphone 4 or 5? Seems that crowd rolls over every 12 to 18 months so what difference does it make?

Unconceivable!

I do not think it means what you think it means.

Inconceivable!

(Sorry, not a native English speaker)

It was a reference to Vizzini in The Princess Bride, not something wrong with your post, don't worry

Ah, I was confused since your quote was in the post I replied to in the first place.

Its scary that this is impressive for Android, while still 2+ years less than ios. (iPhone 5s will get ios 11)

Exactly. This point does not get sufficient attention to make it a competitive advantage. And it absolutely should be!

Yup, that grabbed my attention, too (so much so that I find a find-in-page for "2 years"). I had no idea things were that bad.

periods like that make phones feel more like a hardware subscription service:

(with protection plan) $5 per week for 3 years for security updates

$7.60 per week for 2 years for OS updates